Lemniscia

Genus of gastropods

Lemniscia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Geomitridae
Subfamily: Geomitrinae
Genus: Lemniscia
R.T. Lowe, 1855 [1]
Type species
Helix michaudi Deshayes, 1832
Synonyms

Helix (Lemniscia) R. T. Lowe, 1855

Lemniscia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae, the hairy snails and their allies.[1]

Species

Species within the genus Lemniscia include:

  • Lemniscia galeata (R. T. Lowe, 1862)
  • Lemniscia michaudi (Deshayes, 1832)
Synonyms
  • Lemniscia calva (R. T. Lowe, 1831): synonym of Caseolus (Caseolus) calvus (R. T. Lowe, 1831) represented as Caseolus calvus (R. T. Lowe, 1831)

References

  1. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Lemniscia R. T. Lowe, 1855. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996333 on 2022-07-21 Archived 2020-11-08 at the Wayback Machine
  • Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
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  • Nomenclator Zoologicus info
  • Lowe, R. T. (1855 ("1854")). Catalogus molluscorum pneumonatorum insularum Maderensium: or a list of all the land and freshwater shells, recent and fossil, of the Madeiran islands: arranged in groups according to their natural affinities; with diagnoses of the groups, and of the new or hitherto imperfectly defined species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 22: 161-208
Taxon identifiers
Lemniscia


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